"thunder" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:21:25 +0000, Tom Francis wrote:


I've never used the DVD player, but I just received a DVD from
Evinrude and wanted to play it - won't play - tells me I need to
purchase a MPEG-2 upgrade or something.

Try he

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/plugins.aspx


More info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306331/EN-US/


Bill Gates sucks.

Now, you are getting your thinking right. ;-)


It's all a crap shoot, apparently. I had the same problem as Tom with my
Sony laptop. When I first got it, it played DVDs via some software it came
with (part of Windows ME). 6 months later, I reformatted & installed XP Pro.
WMP would not play DVDs at that point. It didn't matter much, so after a few
weeks of looking for solutions, I moved on to other issues.

Two months ago, I did a reformat/reinstall of XP Pro on my desktop machine.
WMP plays DVDs. I did nothing special to make it happen.